For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.
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… and the new earth. Let me give you a little homework assignment for later, maybe tonight or later this week. Look at Hebrews chapter 4 verses 1 to 11. And you'll notice in the writer of Hebrews as he talks about rest, it's a rest spoken of not merely as physical rest to be enjoyed one day out of seven. He's talking more there about a resting place, a resting place which was prefigured by the promised land in the Old Testament. And if we know anything about the promised land, it is a provisional place of rest. It's pointing forward as we read the whole of our bodies, the whole of our Bibles, it's pointing forward to a worldwide domain of rest, the new heavens and the new earth. And there's this wonderful line in Hebrews 4, so then there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. There remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God. What's in view there is not so much a Sabbath day as a Sabbath place, a resting place, just as that was prefigured in Canaan, the promised land, so we're moving toward a place that will be a place of rest, that will no longer have all the cacophony surrounding us, which agitates us and keeps us in many ways from rest. …
The gospel-state is every where spoken of as a renewed state of things, wherein old things are passed away, and all things become new: we are said to be created unto Christ Jesus unto good works: all things are restored and reconciled whether in heaven or in earth, and God hath caused light to shine out of darkness, as he did at the beginning; and the dissolution of the Jewish state was often spoken of in the Old Testament as the end of the world.—But we who belong to the gospel-church, belong to the new creation; and therefore there seems to be at least as much reason, that we should commemorate the work of this creation, as that the members of the ancient Jewish church should commemorate the work of the old creation. 3. There is another thing which confirms it, that the fourth command teaches God’s resting from the new creation, as well as from the old: which is that the Scriptures expressly speak of the one, its parallel with the other, i. e. Christ’s resting from the work of redemption, is expressly spoken of as being parallel with God’s resting from the work of creation. “For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” Now, Christ rested from his works when he rose from the dead, on the first day of the week. When he rose from the dead, then he finished his work of redemption; his humiliation was then at an end; he then rested, and was refreshed. W hen it is said, “There .remaineth a rest to the people of God;” in the original, it is, a sabbatism, or the keeping of a sabbath: and this reason is given for it, “For he that entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.” These three things at least we are taught by these words: …
1. Let us be thankful for the institution of the Christian sabbath. It is a thing wherein God hath shown his mercy to us, and his care for our souls. He shows, that he, by his infinite wisdom, is contriving for our good, as Christ teaches us, that the sabbath was made for man; Mark ii. 27. “The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.” It was made for the profit and for the comfort of our souls. The sabbath is a day of rest: God hath appointed that we should, every seventh day, rest from all our worldly labours. Instead of that, he might have appointed the hardest labours for us to go through, some severe hardships for us to endure. It is a day of outward, but especially of spiritual, rest. It is a day appointed of God, that his people thereon may find rest unto their souls; that the souls of believers may rest and be refreshed in their Saviour. It is a day of rejoicing: God made it to be a joyful day to the church; Ps. cxviii. 24. ” This is the day which the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.” They that aright receive and improve the sabbath, call it a delight and honourable: it is a pleasant and a joyful day to them; it is an image of the future heavenly rest of the church. Heb. iv. 9, 10, 11. “There remaineth therefore a rest” (or sabbatism, as it is in the original) “to the people of God. For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest.” …